Counterweight with Bust of Tiberius (?)
This head was originally made for use as a counterweight, as indicated by traces of a ring projecting from the top. The finely worked portrait may represent a youthful Emperor Tiberius (reigned 14-37 CE).
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Artifact
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16061
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object
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normalized
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provenance
Madame E. Warneck Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 1905, p. 27, no. 168, pl. X [said to have been found at Boscoreale]; C. and E. Canessa, Rome and Paris, 1905, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1906, by purchase; Walters Art Musueum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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8
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import
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.819_Fnt_BW_H51.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.819_Fnt_BW_H51.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.819_Fnt_BW_H51.jpg |
| imageCount | 8 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.819 |